Tag Archives: Information Design

You Are Here: Spatial List Ordering

Friday, December 26th, 2008

So according to this department store sign, if I want to go to floor 1, I go… up?
This sign is effectively a map and should therefore be ordered to depict the physical space it represents instead of how we count. Put the bottom floor on the bottom, where it actually is.

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Bad Information Design: Recipe For Disaster

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Alton Brown, host of the Food Network’s cooking show Good Eats, came up with the best chocolate chip cookies ever. However, to achieve chewy nirvana, you have to slog through a recipe whose failure to even make an attempt at user empathy or to follow common sense is almost impressive.
The first problem is common to [...]

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